Articles Tagged with FluidOps

Most of the private clouds that have been implemented to date have focused upon transient workloads like development, QA, load testing, pilot, pre-production, and training. Private clouds are great for these use cases because private clouds automate the process of creating and tearing down these transient environments as is needed. However, production business critical applications are not transient and most do not need to scale up and down with demand. This creates an entirely different set of requirements for putting these business critical applications in private clouds.

VMware’s purchase of DynamicOps signaled a major shift in both VMware’s strategy, and in the market for cloud management solutions. Previously VMware strategy (with vCloud Director) was focused mainly upon addressing development, test, pilot and training type use cases on its own vSphere platform. This relegated clouds to tactical and transient use cases which while important for many enterprise organizations, are not the bread and butter use cases that drive IT Operations day in and day out. Now here comes the enterprise cloud.